| Tip 235 | Generate Font Samples |
If you have a lot of fonts installed on the system, you may find it helpful to create a sample document displaying them all. Lots of professional designers rely on binders full of such printed examples.
There are two simple ways of doing this, depending on whether you want a simple or bespoke sample document.
Creating a Simple Font Sample Document
You can create a simple sample of one or more fonts, showing little more than the upper/lowercase letters and numbers from 0 to 9, by following these steps:
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Open the Font Book app, which is the Mac font manager (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then double-click Font Book), and then select one or more fonts (multiple fonts can be selected by holding down ...
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